What Are these spammers trying to do?

[marlboroza]

Not sure what they're trying to do. In case it is some SEO-motivated thing, I added rel="ugc" to all newbie links. While I was at it, I also added this to all links in signatures.

Thanks to everyone reporting them!

While reporting posts (specifically in this topic), I noticed one account with interesting link, maybe it is somehow related to this spam lately:


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2565621

It's just a wild guess.

Perfect Life is different for everyone. It depends on the state of mind. A Perfect life is the one which you decide its perfect no matter the circumstances...  
Source:https appsgb com

Seems spammers are adding source to look like they used someone's words, but website itself has nothing related to text above that link.

[NotATether]

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Does this make "hidden" links show the normal url colour even if they use the color BBcode? I've found a handful of these a few minutes ago, but weren't as hidden as they were before (the link colour mostly, but I dind't have time to check by quoting...). So either that has happened, or they are becoming extremely lazy

No it doesn't affect the display or styling of the link at all, it just adds rel="ugc" as a CSS property of the link. i.e. what used to be this:

Code:

<a class="ul" href="https://freebitco.in/?r=35065471&amp;tag=fs">...</a>

is now this:

Code:

<a rel="ugc" class="ul" href="https://freebitco.in/?r=35065471&amp;tag=fs">...</a>

[Csmiami]

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Ah! Thanks for the explanation!

But then, something else has been done, because all the new ones I've seen, show the links with the default blue; even if they had the color=black like a couple of days ago. It's impossible to miss them now

Update: For what I've been seeing today, I believe that the color atribute has been disabled in the patrol page... anyone else seeing this?